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Stickels, Leslie; Schwartz, Marsha – 1987
Memory-assisting devices used in high school Spanish instruction are described, including strategies in many forms: visuals, sounds, rhythms, rhymes, and actions. Mnemonics for subjunctives include: a suffix-"switching" procedure; a word ("dishes") to remind them of the six verbs not using the first person to form the present subjunctive; a…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Classroom Techniques, High Schools, Mnemonics
Ciske, Mary Desjarlais – WATESOL Working Papers, 1983
The use of prepositions, past tense verb forms, and subject-verb agreement in the English of a Korean college student of English for foreign students is analyzed in the context of Krashen's Monitor Model theory of language acquisition. The student was interviewed, asked to give a free writing sample, asked to read his own writing, and asked to…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Students, English (Second Language), Grammar
Thompson, David A. – 1988
The Australian aboriginal language Kuuku Ya'u and its closely related dialect Umpila are described. An introductory chapter provides information on the classification of the languages, linguistic type, and dialect groups. The second chapter outlines aspects of the phonology of Kuuku Y'au and Umpila, including phonemes, vowel length, consonant…
Descriptors: Australian Aboriginal Languages, Descriptive Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Language Research
Barnwell, David – 1987
A study examined the patterns of error in the preterite and imperfect tenses in the written Spanish of native English-speaking college students. Errors found in the midterm examination were analyzed to determine whether they were due to incorrect tense, incorrect form of the tense, or both. It was predicted that many students would choose…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Error Patterns

Steever, Sanford B. – 1986
The morphological and lexical bases of Dravidian complementation are explored by proposing a series of rules that govern the distribution of finite predicates in the Dravidian sentence. The distribution of two verbs, "a-" ("become") and "en-" ("say"), is shown to be correlated with the distribution of finite predicates. These predicates are…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Diachronic Linguistics, Dravidian Languages, Language Patterns
Khaled, Turki Bani – 1984
A study of the verbs used in the management sections of nursing texts looked at the use of verbs as lexical items and grammatical forms and at their form-function relationship. The analysis of verbs as lexical items attempted to establish whether or not there was a common core vocabulary among the four texts studied. The examination of verbs as…
Descriptors: Course Organization, Curriculum Development, English for Special Purposes, Grammar
Ferrer, Jami; Werner de Poleo, Patty – 1983
The instructional techniques and materials for classroom use presented are based on a three-tiered model for the practice of grammatical structures that avoids the common problem of trying to elicit normal, spontaneous conversation. Situations are devised that by their nature tend to evoke only particular structures. The first tier of the model…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Form Classes (Languages)
Adamson, H. D. – 1987
This paper attempts to show the relationship between variable rules and more widely used psycholinguistic constructs such as amalgams and schemas, and to point out how variationists' methods can be useful in the study of language acquisition. The traditional rule, the rule for forming the past tense of regular verbs in English, is discussed as it…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Developmental Stages, English
Borsley, Robert D. – 1986
A discussion of passives in the context of generalized phrase structure grammar (GPSG) looks at two problems associated with a lexical rule that derives passive participles from active verbs. The first occurs with sentences whose main verb takes an NP and does not have a passive counterpart. This situation requires a more restrictive metarule, and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English, Foreign Countries, Grammatical Acceptability
Jackson, T. Wendell; Clegg, J. Halvor – 1988
Previous research on Spanish vocabulary for second language instruction has focused primarily on word frequency in a variety of print sources, and has the added disadvantages of being outdated and having too complex a format. A new, computer-based analysis of spoken Spanish from different dialect regions of the world was undertaken to provide more…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Computer Oriented Programs, Dialects, Form Classes (Languages)
Mayer, Laura A., Ed. – Cross Currents, 1986
This number of the journal contains the following articles: "A Language-and-Learning Framework for a Theory of Language Teaching" (Moira Chimombo); "Using Authentic Video Materials in the Language Classroom" (Kathleen Kitao); "An American Teacher in Kiev: Impressions of English Education in the U.S.S.R." (Ellen…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Comparative Education
Cronnell, Bruce – 1982
Noting that using correct verb forms is a problem for many elementary school students, and especially for those who are speakers of nonstandard English, this paper presents an instructional program for teaching past and past participle verb forms in writing to students in grade 3 through 6. The paper outlines the content of the instructional…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Elementary Education, English Curriculum, English (Second Language)
Wode, Henning – 1978
Several recent reports on the untutored second language acquisition of English have suggested that the same developmental sequence holds for the acquisition of the interrogative structures irrespective of whether English is acquired as a first language (L1) or a second language (L2). These studies have been conducted within the Klima & Bellugi…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, English, English (Second Language)
Kuczaj, Stan A. – 1981
The acquisition of the copula and auxiliary "be" forms of "am,""is," and "are" was studied with 16 children. Spontaneous social speech samples were obtained from each child. One child's speech was sampled for approximately one hour per week from age 2;5 through 4;0, and for one-half hour per week from age 4;1 to 5;0. A second child's speech was…
Descriptors: Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Fong, Eugene A. – 1978
There is a set of French verbs which admits both indicative and subjunctive sentential complements. The indicative complement is correlated with a positive assertion about the truth of the complement; the subjunctive implies a neutral attitude or a non-assertion. When various sentential complement constructions are considered both in the…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Form Classes (Languages), French, Grammar